Immortal Path to Heaven c1-725

by Heaven's White Crane

  In the beginning, they sounded rather messy, but they soon spoke uniformly, and their voices echoed in the courtyard.

  Tributary Chen looked incredibly displeased, and he suddenly sneered. “Killed? I’d like to see who will be killed in the end!”

  He flashed and disappeared from his spot.

  Wu Guotu’s face changed. He called out while he wielded his saber.

  He acknowledged Ou Yangming to be a gifted person, whose cultivation speed was extremely fast, but he knew that he was just a Yin Grade martial artist.

  Therefore, Wu Guotu knew that Ou Yangming’s chance of surviving a Supreme Great Ancestor’s sudden attack was very low.

  Wu Guotu gave his all as he attacked. Though he might not succeed and he had to risk offending a Supreme Great Ancestor, he did it without complaint or regret.

  At the same time, many soldiers raised their spears and charged at the enemy, whose shadow could almost not be seen.

  “Pow…”

  Countless spears were shot out, but the soldiers fell hard to the ground, and they could not get up for some time.

  The Supreme Great Ancestor used his power wonderfully. He did not really injure the soldiers, but the soldiers would have to stay on the ground for some time before they could get up

  He moved his hand to flick another crushed stone at Wu Guotu’s saber. As a result, the saber-light stopped, and the saber of the powerful Yang Grade martial artist was actually flicked away by a small stone from the Supreme Great Ancestor.

  Followed by that, Tributary Chen reached out to grab Ou Yangming. ‘This young fella talks really big. Does he think that he’ll be able to survive comfortably by giving a stirring speech?

  ‘Hmph, if he’s not capable enough, he shouldn’t do something that’s beyond his capability!’

  That being said, just as Tributary Chen attacked with his palm, Ou Yangming shifted strangely and dodged him during the crucial moment.

  At the same time, Ou Yangming kicked with the tip of his toes and grabbed a spear. The scenes of when Chen Yifan wielded the spear in the past appeared in his mind.

  Ou Yangming lifted his hand, and his spear turned into a giant dragon that advanced toward Tributary Chen in monstrous waves.

  Chapter 166 - The Chens’ Spear Technique

  Chapter 166 The Chens’ Spear Technique

  Ou Yangming’s spear was about 3 meters long. It had a golden point head and a wooden shaft.

  When he moved his wrist, it seemed like the sky was star-studded, there were flashes of silver lights, as well as sprinkles of water.

  Chen Yifan only wanted to claim his title as Ou Yangming’s master when he taught Ou Yangming his spear art. Who knew, the young fellow cultivated the technique whenever he was free as if he gained a treasure after he was taught the spear technique.

  Speaking of which, the spear technique was the first complete set of martial art that Ou Yangming learned. Before that, he had learned the military’s fist art and blade technique, which were killing skills, hence they could not be mentioned on equal terms with the spear technique.

  Although Ou Yangming had not cultivated the spear technique for long, he was able to grasp its essence due to the integration of Heaven and man and the thoroughly meticulous state.

  As he attacked with the spear at the moment, his might was frightful.

  “Hey?”

  Tributary Chen had a strange look on his face. He swayed his body a little like a leaf on the water, and he could not be taken down despite the intense spear force.

  Ou Yangming shouted and suddenly shook the tip of his spear, then the storm-like spear force instantly became as delicate as silk.

  His spear technique remained the same, but he performed two entirely different prospects in a short span of time.

  Wu Guotu, who found his footing after taking a step back, was about to charge again when he recalled something. He also had a weird expression on his face, but he no longer had the intention to fight with Tributary Chen to death.

  Tributary Chen scoffed coldly and reached out his finger to flick the tip of the spear at the speed of light.

  Plenty of essential Qi gushed out as an attempt to hit Ou Yangming through the spear.

  The corner of Ou Yangming’s eye twitched, and he had already sensed through the thoroughly meticulous state the odd changes around him before Tributary Chen even attacked.

  Be it the flow of Tributary Chen’s aura or the slightly expanded muscles under his garment, everything was under Ou Yangming’s observation.

  Ou Yangming’s eyes lit up, and he shook his wrist again, causing his spear to wind up in an unbelievable way. The spear was not the only thing that rolled back because it was also accompanied by Tributary Chen’s surging essential Qi.

  Leveraged force!

  This was the most important part of Chen Yifan’s spear technique.

  The spear itself had a vigorous force. If one wielded it with one’s power only, the consumption would be much more than if one’s used a saber or a sword. Therefore, a person who adopted the spear technique had to be adept in leveraging force, or one could also borrow the spear’s force or another person’s power. Nonetheless, it was not easy to achieve that. Without sufficient time to comprehend the theory behind it, it would be incredibly difficult for one to grasp its essence. Ou Yangming had his own understanding in the technique when he practiced it in the past, but he would be lying to himself if he said that he comprehended it thoroughly.

  That said, when he was suddenly being attacked by a powerful enemy, his essence, energy, and spirit suddenly became clear and penetrating. As a result, he could perceive every detailed change.

  Ou Yangming subconsciously performed the trick when he sensed the surging energy from his spear.

  When he released the technique, the thin veil, which had been covering him, seemed to have been removed at once. He gained a deeper understanding in spear technique as though he was self-taught. “Very well!” Tributary Chen uttered loudly. His eyes were glowing as if he had just seen something interesting, and his expression became completely different as well.

  He reached out his finger again to tap the end of the spear this time, causing it to bounce in mid-air and shoot in the opposite direction.

  Ou Yangming was surprised. ‘Tributary Chen is indeed worthy of his reputation as a Supreme Great Ancestor; he has profound knowledge and a great understanding in spear technique. He tapped and pushed at the perfect time, and he performed a method similar to leveraging force, causing the power in the spear to be stronger than before.’

  Nevertheless, the duel was not able to trouble Ou Yangming, who had apprehended the technique.

  In particular, he could easily identify the spear’s key points of strength through the thoroughly meticulous state.

  Ou Yangming reached out his palm to move it backward on the shaft. While it looked like he was brushing the shaft with his palm, he actually exerted power on a few points. Consequently, the spear turned around once more and zoomed at Tributary Chen’s direction at the next instant.

  The power that was contained in the spear became extremely fearsome because they both took turns to exert more power. Thus, even Tributary Chen dared not ignore it. Despite that, Tributary Chen looked like he was full of admiration, and his fierce killing intent even disappeared. “Very well, I’d like to see how many rounds you can withstand!”

  Tributary Chen shouted before he guided and pushed the spear with his palm. The spear turned around smoothly and flew toward Ou Yangming along with a shrilling sound from the wind.

  Ou Yangming stood still on the spot as he watched the spear being turned around, then he quickly used his palm to tap a few different points on the spear during that crucial moment. Subsequently, the spear went around him according to the force’s direction, and it flew back in the opposite direction.

  Each hit from Tributary Chen’s palm was swift, decisive, and violent, but Ou Yangming did not show an impression of weakness even when the spear
was pushed back to him. Even though he did not have the energy to send the spear away with one hit, he could identify all strong and weak points on the spear.

  Ou Yangming used the weak against the strong, hit many points on the spear, and was able to use leveraged force.

  With that, the unlucky spear flew back and forth between them, and the whistling sound eventually grew so loud that it became deafening.

  Wu Guotu had led his men away a long time ago, but he had a complicated look in his eyes when he watched the dancing spear.

  The young man, whom he treated lightly just a while ago, had actually arrived at such a stage and could contend with a Supreme Great Ancestor.

  Wu Guotu knew it was an overstatement to say that Ou Yangming could resist the Supreme Great Ancestor. It was more like the young man had the capital to withstand the great ancestor’s attacks in a certain aspect.

  However, Wu Guotu still found it unbelievable.

  As for Liang Jinye and the other people, they were already stupefied and were in a daze.

  Liang Jinye exchanged glances with his brother, and they both noticed how horrified they were.

  They attached extreme importance to the fact that the Yin Grade martial artist actually had the ability to resist a Supreme Great Ancestor in a certain sense. On top of that, they were appalled that the Yin Grade martial artist was cruel, merciless, and unrestrained.

  The brothers feared the young man’s methods, which were similar to an outlaw’s, as well as his extraordinary martial arts cultivation base.

  Any one of the two would give them a splitting headache, and the combination of both would result in a deterrent effect.

  The faces of Liang Jinye and his brother were ashen as they howled in grief, ‘Why did we offend an enemy like him…’

  They could only pray that Tributary Chen would kill Ou Yangming right away out of rage; it was the only way they would be spared from future troubles.

  “Pow…”

  At the spur of the moment, the spinning spear exploded, resulting in countless shards that shot out in the air.

  Although the spear was a selected weapon in the military, it could not withstand being wrecked by Ou Yangming and Tributary Chen.

  After being pressured by their endless power, it finally burst.

  Tributary Chen’s face darkened. He swayed to kick up Liang Jinling, who was constantly groaning on the ground.

  Liang Jinye was elated when Third Young Master Liang flew up, so he immediately opened his hands to catch the young master. Liang Jinye looked at the young master’s bloody wound, then at Ou Yangming, and he did not know what to feel.

  When the wooden shards got close to Tributary Chen’s body, they were rebounded by an invisible power.

  Since the wooden shards were only shards that exploded from the spear, they were not comparable with the might of an explosive arrow, so they could not hurt the tributary.

  Tributary Chen fixed his gaze on Ou Yangming.

  Ou Yangming naturally did not have such forceful essential Qi to protect his body, but he bent his body backward and twisted in an exceptionally strange manner. The seemingly unintentional movements allowed him to dodge most of the shards, then he swung his hands to hit the remaining shards away, which he failed to avoid.

  While the effect of Ou Yangming’s actual combat was far from Tributary Chen, his reaction left the other people in awe.

  Just as Ou Yangming hit away the last shard, a shadow flew in his direction.

  He reached out his hand to grab the spear.

  Tributary Chen kept a straight face as he kicked up another spear and stared at Ou Yangming. “Again!” Ou Yangming was slightly moved. “Sure!” Afterward, he stabbed with his spear, and the spear force was so intense that the spear carried the aura for a one-way attack.

  Tributary Chen attacked with his spear too, but he casually flicked it out.

  When the spears almost contacted each other, Ou Yangming’s spear suddenly turned, and the surging aura that it carried vanished in the blink of an eye as if it found an outlet. The turning spear became like a gentle breeze or a mild drizzle – it was no longer violent.

  The dancing spear became more flexible in Ou Yangming’s hands, and it slowly carried Chen Yifan’s style as it became like a dragon, which turned over boundless waves.

  On the other hand, Tributary Chen displayed his skills when he tapped, pushed, stabbed, and blocked with his spear. That being said, Tributary Chen defended more than he attacked, and even when he occasionally attacked, he withdrew his spear very quickly

  The fight became more intense, but the spectators looked at each other as they felt that it was strange.

  They vaguely sensed that the spear techniques performed by Tributary Chen and Ou Yangming were very similar as though a senior was feeding techniques to a junior in a clan.

  Of course, the junior had a great level of attainment in the spear technique too as he could sometimes employ tricks to force his senior to attack instead.

  Liang Jinye and his brother exchanged looks as they were shocked. ‘This doesn’t seem right…’ However, it was impossible for the brothers to make a move.

  “Swoosh…” In the fight, Ou Yangming stabbed openly with his spear, but the attacking angle was a cunning one. Tributary Chen could not evade it, so he tapped the shaft to swing the tip of his spear, and he suddenly shouted, “Young fella, watch out!”

  After countless exchanges of blows with their spears, Tributary Chen finally initiated an attack.

  Chapter 167 - A Thunderbolt From A Spear

  Chapter 167 A Thunderbolt From A Spear

  When the spear was out, it was like a giant titanium rock-all-conquering!

  When the spear was out, it was like a giant limitless dragon-invincible!

  Tributary Chen’s spear was still a normal wooden spear, but the aura that was released was so intense that it was indescribable.

  The stab from the ordinary spear made Ou Yangming feel like he was suppressed by a tall mountain.

  Only extreme power was released from the spear as no mental power was unleashed, but the simple attack caused enormous pressure on Ou Yangming’s mind.

  It was then when he clearly experienced an incredibly horrifying feeling. He did not encounter such a forceful pressure even when he walked the Testimony Path.

  The most notable feeling that Ou Yangming felt on the Testimony Path was exhaustion, which made it difficult for him to carry on. On the other hand, the spear was truly a lethal weapon. It made him feel like he was faced with death or the oppression from an irresistible tall mountain, and it reminded him of when he was sneakily attacked by Zhang Hanyu and when he was attacked by Zhang Yinli during his journey.

  Ou Yangming initially thought he would no longer feel like that as his cultivation base improved, but he finally realized that it was only because he had not met powerful opponents.

  A Supreme Great Ancestor could still pose a lethal threat to him. Ou Yangming opened his mouth as he tried hard to breathe, but the air around him seemed to have frozen due to the spear, so he could not breathe at all.

  Being enveloped by a death threat, Ou Yangming felt like his brain was going to stop operating It turned out that when a martial arts powerhouse’s power was cultivated to the extreme and was completely unleashed, even one’s spiritual world would be greatly affected.

  The oppression, which was a result of the huge disparity between their ranks, was vividly displayed at that moment.

  All of a sudden, the purple light in Ou Yangming’s mind jumped.

  Like a fuse, it quickly ignited the mental power that was hidden in his mind. The 40 Points of powerful mental power were instantly transmitted to every part of his body at the speed of light, which helped pull him out of the boundless fear. Next, Ou Yangming saw it.

  The spear. It was still the spear.

  Although the view of a towering mountain disappeared, the substantial threat from the spear did not reduce at all.

  The tip of
the spear was not close to Ou Yangming’s body yet, but he saw the fluctuating airflow.

  Ou Yangming was unusually awake at that instant, where he could even see the most detailed change in every airflow in the void.

  The integration of Heaven and man! Thoroughly meticulous!

  Ou Yangming’s spear finally moved. It did not move by a big margin as he only pushed it upward a little to touch the tip of Tributary Chen’s spear.

  There was a huge difference between their powers. Not to mention Ou Yangming could not match his power with the tributary’s, even if he was fully equipped, he could not contend with the Supreme Great Ancestor, who had unleashed his essential Qi.

  If the tips of both spears touched, it would mean that Ou Yangming was shaking resistance with resistance, fronting strength with strength, and breaking force with force. It was simply a suicidal act.

  Sure enough, the tip of Ou Yangming’s spear was mercilessly swung away, whereas Tributary Chen’s spear continued forward without being obstructed.

  The area between Ou Yangming’s thumb and index finger was cut, and blood flowed out.

  This was the price he had to pay for making such rigid contact, and his legs shivered at the same time as if he was going to fall to the ground.

  Nonetheless, Ou Yangming widened his eyes and gritted his teeth. The strong and tough willpower he had after walking the Testimony Path burst out at once, allowing him to stand

  firmly.

  Afterward, an unexpected scene took place. The tip of Ou Yangming’s spear, which was hit, was not actually knocked away. It turned in an extremely small semicircle in the void, then it pricked another point on Tributary Chen’s spear.

  Nevertheless, the Supreme Great Ancestor’s power was not trivial at all and was far beyond one’s imagination. Though Tributary Chen’s spear was stabbed twice, it did not actually affect him.

  Ou Yangming’s spear was easily tipped away once more.

  Despite that, Tributary Chen’s eyes lit up because he could feel that the second spear’s power was greater than the first.

  Leveraged force!

  Ou Yangming’s own power obviously could not be compared to Tributary Chen’s, but he could borrow the tributary’s power, so he borrowed it from his spear. Earlier on, Ou Yangming had used skills and techniques of leverage force against Tributary Chen, but the spear went back and forth, hence they had different trials of strength.